Serial deletions and duplications suggest a mechanism for the collinearity of Hoxd genes in limbs

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6912, 2002, Pages 145-150

  Kmita, Marie ^a   Fraudeau, Nadine ^a   Hérault, Yann ^a   Duboule, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES;

TOPOGRAPHY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENE; LIMB;

ARTICLE; DNA MODIFICATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOX GENE; HOXD GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037079049     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01189     Document Type: Article

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